Kurdistan Islamic Group

The Kurdistan Islamic Group is a Kurdish nationalist and Islamist political and religious movement in Iraqi Kurdistan that seeks to create an Islamic state in an independent Kurdistan. It was founded in May 2001 by Ali Bapir, and it was active as an insurgent group during the Iraq War against the United States and the Iraqi government before becoming a political party. In 2016, it held 3/325 seats in the Council of Representatives of Iraq and 6/111 seats in the Kurdistan Parliament.